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FKIE_CVE-2019-14855

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-03-20 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:19
Summary
A flaw was found in the way certificate signatures could be forged using collisions found in the SHA-1 algorithm. An attacker could use this weakness to create forged certificate signatures. This issue affects GnuPG versions before 2.2.18.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnupg gnupg *
fedoraproject fedora 30
fedoraproject fedora 31
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04

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